foreboding

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foreboding

a prediction; a portent of future misfortune; presentiment: She had a foreboding that there would be an accident.

Not to be confused with:

forbidding – prohibiting: They are forbidding entry.

fore·bod·ing

(fôr-bō′dĭng)

1. A sense of impending evil or misfortune.

2. An evil omen; a portent.

adj.

Ominous.

fore·bod′ing·ly adv.

fore·bod′ing·ness n.

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foreboding

(fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ)

1. a feeling of impending evil, disaster, etc

2. an omen or portent

adj

presaging something

foreˈbodingly adv

foreˈbodingness n

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fore•bod•ing

(fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr-)

n.

1. a prediction; portent.

2. a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.

adj.

3. of or indicating foreboding, esp. of evil.

[1350–1400]

fore•bod′ing•ly, adv.

fore•bod′ing•ness, n.

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Noun	1.	foreboding - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" boding, premonition, presentiment apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" shadow - a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness" presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen
	2.	foreboding - an unfavorable omen omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, presage, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
Adj.	1.	foreboding - ominously prophetic fateful, portentous prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"

foreboding

noun

1. dread, fear, anxiety, chill, unease, apprehension, misgiving, premonition, presentiment, apprehensiveness an uneasy sense of foreboding

2. omen, warning, prediction, portent, sign, token, foreshadowing, presage, prognostication, augury, foretoken No one paid any attention to their gloomy forebodings.

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foreboding

noun

An indication of impending danger or harm:

forewarning, threat, thundercloud.

Idioms: gathering clouds, storm clouds.

Translations

předtucha

forudanelse

Ahnung

pressentiment

rossz előérzet

fyrirboîi

presentimento

bloga nuojauta

priekšnojauta

bange anelser forutanelse

предчувствие

predtucha

içe doğmaönsezi

预感

foreboding

[fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ] N → presentimiento m
to have a foreboding that → presentir que ...
to have forebodings → tener un presentimiento or una corazonada

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foreboding

[fɔː^rˈbəʊdɪŋ] n [person] → appréhension f
a sense of foreboding → une appréhension

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foreboding

n (= presentiment) → (Vor)ahnung f, → Vorgefühl nt; (= feeling of disquiet) → ungutes Gefühl

adj look → Unheil verkündend

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foreboding

[fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ] n → (cattivo) presagio, presentimento

foreboding

(foːˈboudiŋ) noun

a feeling that something bad is going to happen. He has a strange foreboding that he will die young.

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Why do I feel a foreboding that you have appealed to him in vain?

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Some dim sense of foreboding was beginning to steal in upon him.

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The long absence of the uncle and nephew had occasioned some disquiet in the minds of all whom they had left behind them; and the more, as, during the preceding dialogue, the uncle had more than once elevated his voice, so as to be heard downstairs; which, though they could not distinguish what he said, had caused some evil foreboding in Nancy and her mother, and, indeed, even in Jones himself.

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Apart from this foreboding, things went on much as usual in the Poyser household.

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Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.

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"He had always thought what he said then." And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.

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It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me.

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"Catherine would make a sad, heedless young housekeeper to be sure," was her mother's foreboding remark; but quick was the consolation of there being nothing like practice.

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So although the heart of Deirdre was sad and heavy with foreboding of evil, they set sail for the land of Erin.

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- Last Christmas I was a bride, with a heart overflowing with present bliss, and full of ardent hopes for the future, though not unmingled with foreboding fears.

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Thus did Zarathustra hear a soothsayer speak; and the foreboding touched his heart and transformed him.

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A rush of troubled waters floods her soul, While black forebodings rise from deeps unknown And the cold trail of fear creeps round her heart.